20 Artists selected 2017

Josie Elizabeth Archer, Performance, New Zealand
Agne Auželytė, Performance, Lithuania
Antonia Barnett-Macintosh, Sound composition, New Zealand/Germany
Chelsea Baxter, Performance, New Zealand
Kosta Bogoievski, Performance, USA/New Zealand
Alice Colley, Music/performance, UK
Sara Cowdell, Performance, New Zealand
Kyah Dove, Performance, New Zealand
Shelley Etkin, Performance, USA
Joanne Hobern, Performance, New Zealand
Vicky Kapo, Performance, New Zealand/Australia
Caroline Künzle, Performance/video, Canada
Helene Lefebvre, Performance/art, Canada
Laura Marsh, Dj/performance, New Zealand
Gabrielle New, Performance, Australia
Jazmine Rose Phillips, Music/performance, New Zealand
Katia Reshetnikova, Performance, Russia
Jonny Rowden, Performance, UK/Australia
Rudolf Sanchez, Performance/video, Philippines

Curation Project Themes:

The works and artists for this residency will contribute towards conversations about a wide plethora of socio-political issues across demographics through their artistic medium. The aim of this residency is to invite artists working with diverse socio-political themes toward an understanding of how these diverse demographics are in conversation with each other. These subjects may include for example; post-colonial, gender, racial, cultural, ecological, sexuality, disability, indigenous, class and technology related themes. Artists are invited to exchange their practices in discovery of new understandings, discourses through support and exchange. These exchanges happen between artists during the overall residency within and around research and/or presentation of individual's works, as decided by individuals.

We are living in an escalating time of conflict, tension, economical, political and environmental crisis across the globe. This residency aims to therefore allow for the emergence of art projects and ideas from artists and and theorists addressing any number of these socio-political topics from very different demographics to address unifying themes around inequality and marginalization. This is in the hope for these conversations to expose diversity as a strength and conversation as a inspiring and not a divisive force as we see at the moment on the planet.